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verres | verris (noun M) : (collat. form of the
* Nom. sing., Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 8), m.Sanscr. root varsh-, to rain, wet; whence vrshabha, bull; cf. ἔρση, dew, a male swine, boar-pig (syn.: aper, porcus),Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 21; Col. 7, 9, 7; Hor. C. 3, 22, 7.— Transf., contemptuously, of a man, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 67.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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